The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.